Energy drinks are medicine-flavored soda. With extra caffeine added, plus small amounts of marketing substances like taurine and B vitamins. It's funny to see the overreaction from certain quarters, e.g. nutrition scientists who tend to be middle-aged old-fashioned folks embracing the naturalistic fallacy and disliking new and artificial things.
I've seen in two sources (Olympic recommendations for athletes and Harvard recommendations for the general public) the warning not to confuse energy drinks with sports drinks like Gatorade. Who's ever confused those types of drinks?! I've never heard anyone in person or even seen anyone on the internet confuse those things.
Energy drinks are the natural evolution of soft drinks. It's equivalent to how people went from wild grains to half-wild/half-cultivated grains to cultivated grains then increasingly refined products like white bread. People have gone from wild fruits to cultivated fruits to juices to increasingly refined soft drinks. Things tend to get purer.
Life: just a bit of experience. :)
Interesting, crimes in retail stores have increased due to COVID masks. Another indirect costs of COVIDiocy! Violence is on the rise. And over a virus that increases people's lifespans.
Fuck the losers who lied to society about COVID. Good thing those lies are falling apart and only the most naive or feeble-minded are still stuck on stupid. Get on with the important things! :)
How about a World Anti-Dictator Day?
Work. Workout. Out.
What if parents gave good advice instead of bad advice? :)
"Go out there and enjoy lots of safe sex!"
"Smoke pot, it's safer than alcohol!"
"Don't take school or work too seriously, you'll regret it when you're older!"
Jejej, Apple products are no longer available in Russia, I guess the Apple yuppies there will oppose the war. :) Also it's now difficult for Russians to go to western countries, so I guess the middle and upper classes will feel denial.
I'm interested in what happens in the body during an electric shock. After getting shocked a whole bunch of times in this badly wired place. It's also badly made mechanically, and I've bumped my head on low doorways and nearly had the roof fall on me. Rain regularly falls through the roof, including on my laptop before I figured out where the rain falls.
I think / am guessing that an electric shock activates a bunch of nerve cells? Does the current flow through your skin and into neurons and other cells? It could push the voltage enough to cause a bunch of action potentials, so it's like you're receiving and sending some random-ish signals? Hence tingling and maybe twitching?
Huh, looks like most household brands are suspending operations or pulling out of Russia. Back to the Iron Curtain.
Huh, no Visa or MasterCard in Russia. I guess a lot of people had to apply for new cards?
Interesting, looks like the smart young people of Russia are fleeing, like in Venezuela and other dictatorships.
I guess those countries will descend into the sewers of global society. Or have already.
Saudi Arabia's buying Russian oil, and western countries are buying Saudi oil. So western countries are still buying Russian oil, and they're also paying for it to be shipped unnecessarily through Saudi Arabia.
Interesting, young people in Russia and Belarus don't seem to support the dictators. Seems like a last-gen thing.
Huh, Ireland froze around a trillion dollars of Russian assets. Is the Irish economy even that big? Jejej, nope, it's like half that. They froze wealth worth twice their GDP, if the stat I'm seeing is right.
That's near the total of the West's freezing of assets, anyways. I guess that would go some way towards rebuilding Ukraine materially. I don't think you can rebuild the emotional losses from such devastation, though.